Seminar

CTIS Seminar: Retranslating Zola in Stereo: Working with/against Vizetelly

14:00 - 15:30 14 February 2019
French ‘naturalist’ writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) published his novel La Joie de vivre, the 12th in the 20-volume cycle about the fictional Rougon-Macquart family during the Second…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Still (Baylor University), ‘Paul and ‘the Good’’

14:00 - 16:00 14 February 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Jennifer Saul: What is happening to our norms against racist speech?

16:00 - 17:30 14 February 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Jennifer Saul's (University of Sheffield) "What Is Happening To Our Norms Against Racist Speech?" Jennifer's primary interests are in Philosophy…

Uncertainty & Risk in Petroleum Exploration & Production

17:00 - 18:00 14 February 2019
Bernie Vining is a senior petroleum geoscientist with 40 years international experience in both executive and scientific roles in the petroleum industry with Exxon (latterly ExxonMobil)…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 18 February 2019

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 18 February 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Vasanthi Priyadarshini Gaddi – “Chromatin…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Leslie Fesenmyer – University of Birmingham

16:00 - 18:00 18 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th February 2019 Dr Leslie Fesenmyer – University of Birmingham “ Ambivalent belonging: Born-again Christians between Africa and Europe” Questions…

Alex Longworth-Dunbar (CHSTM) ‘Increasing a Hundred-Fold the Distresses of Humanity’: A History of Negative Representations of the Telegraph, 1837-1914'

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2019
‘Increasing a Hundred-Fold the Distresses of Humanity’: A History of Negative Representations of the Telegraph, 1837-1914 In light of a widely identified turn towards a negative discourse…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 19 February 2019
Dr Michel Bottlaender from the University of Paris-Saclay, will give a talk entitled Longitudinal Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease, using PET tracer DEP-714

Social Mobility in China - Prof Yaojun Li

12:00 - 14:00 19 February 2019
China has experienced unprecedented development in the last forty years, lifting itself from being one of the poorest countries in the world to being the second largest powerhouse at…

'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto and Calvino-Turcismus in Antwerp’s Dominican Church' - Adam Sammut

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Adam Sammut (PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art, University of York) will be presenting his paper: 'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto…

CGP Research Cluster Doctoral Research Presentations

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for three presentations from University of Manchester Doctoral Candidates. Rahima Siddique: Homophobia, Sexual Perversity and Vulnerability: Framing…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: ‘Waste, Precarity and the Artwork in China’ led by Margaret Hillenbrand

13:00 - 15:00 20 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College,…

CPPI Research Cluster with Dr Lucy Barnes: Social Policy in the UK

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Lucy Barnes' 'Social Policy in the UK'. Dr Barnes is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her research focuses on the…

Departmental Seminar: Ms Leonie Smith (Manchester) and Ms Penelope Orr (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Leonie Smith's Title *Epistemic self-defence: flipping the narrative of addressing epistemic injustice Leonie Smith's Abstract *In this paper I ask: when it comes to resisting epistemic…

Grounding cognition in situated action and multimodal simulation

20 February 2019
Next DNEP External Seminar Professor Larry Barsalou, University of Glasgow Wednesday 20th February, 2019 13.00 - 14.00 Lecture Theatre C, Zochonis Building Hosted by Bo Yao

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2019
Naim Bro Khomasi, University of Cambridge The impact of Kinship Networks on Party Formation and Civil War Alignments in Nineteenth-Century Chile Using social network analysis I map…

Morgan Centre seminar: Bringing writing and drawing back together (Manuel Joao Ramos)

11:00 - 13:00 20 February 2019
Anthropologist Manuel João Ramos will be joining us from the University Institute of Lisbon to talk about his parallel life as an illustrator and sketcher and his newly reissued book…

Preserving privacy through processing encrypted data

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Dr Dirk Koch. Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) allows an interested party to evaluate…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Dr Nara Muraro

16:00 21 February 2019
The Centre for Biological Timing welcomes Dr Nara Muraro from the Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires, who will be speaking on "The hyperpolarization-activated…

CTIS Seminar: Technical Translation in 19th-Century Japan: Historicising and Decentring Notions of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 21 February 2019
The social and material conditions under which translation was carried out in late nineteenth-century Japan differ radically from our contemporary norms. Consequently, the concept of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), ‘Conflicting Eschatologies: Jesus and the Mahdi (Christian and Shi’a apocalyptic expectation)’

14:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Inequalities in hearing and visual health

13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on Inequalities in hearing and visual health, starting at 1pm with a free networking lunch. Hearing and vision difficulties are very common among older…

Quiver mutations, reflection groups and curves on punctured disc

15:00 21 February 2019
Mutations of quivers were introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2002 in the context of cluster algebras. For some classes of quivers, mutations can be realised using geometric or combinatorial…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Amin Ehteshami (University of California, Berkeley) ‘The Pivot to Canonization: Scripturalist Hermeneutics in Premodern Iran’

16:00 - 17:30 21 February 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Seminar: “Mechano-Immunology” Exploring physical drivers of macrophage specification and activation by microenvironment-niche engineering and epigenomics

11:00 - 12:00 21 February 2019
Macrophages are unique in the sense that they perform their function under a variety of different physical environments. Macrophage-like microglia cells in the brain sense low ECM stiffness,…

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